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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Spider Wasps, Velvet Ants and allies (Pompiloidea) » Velvet Ants (Mutillidae) » Sphaeropthalminae » Nocturnal Velvet Ants (Sphaeropthalmini) » Photomorphus

Genus Photomorphus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Internet References · Works Cited
prob Photomorphus sp - Photomorphus archboldi - male Nocturnal Mutillid in California - Photomorphus obscurus - male Nocturnal Mutillid in California - Photomorphus obscurus - male Mutillid - Photomorphus - male Mutillid - Photomorphus paulus - male Mutillid - Photomorphus paulus - male Photomorphus banksi - male Photomorphus - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
Superfamily Pompiloidea (Spider Wasps, Velvet Ants and allies)
Family Mutillidae (Velvet Ants)
Subfamily Sphaeropthalminae
Tribe Sphaeropthalmini (Nocturnal Velvet Ants)
Genus Photomorphus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Photomorphus Viereck, 1903
Numbers
about 34 North American species (1) (as in other members of this family, some species known only from one sex, so precise diversity not known)
Size
males: 7-8 mm (Viereck, 1903); females about 6 mm (image)
Identification
See comments on images, and summarizing from a key to Florida species (2) (females):
mesosoma as wide or wider than head in dorsal view, rectangular without fine carina between pronotum and mesonotum;
eyes slightly ovate;
mandible ventrally toothed or not;
sternal felt line absent;
plumose setae present or absent;
integument visible, usually sparsely covered with appressed and erect simple setae
Internet References
Viereck, H.L. (1903). A Group of Diurnal Mutillidae (Hymenoptera). Entomological News 14: 249-251 (BHL Link).
Works Cited
1.Nearctica: Nomina Insecta Nearctica
2.Velvet Ants, Mutillidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera)
Jeffrey C. Hertz. 2007. University of Florida, IFAS Extension.
Contributed by Keith Bayless on 19 September, 2007 - 7:35pm
Additional contributions by cotinis
Last updated 8 September, 2017 - 8:51pm

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